There are not many empty seats in the dismal, echoing conference chamber in the ghastly concrete box that is the Hotel Maritim here in Bonn, where the UNs latest attempt to maneuver the 194 States Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change gets underway today.

The international community, as it is now called, is here in full force, in the shape of expensively-suited, shiny-shod bureaucrats with an urbane manner and absolutely no knowledge of climate science whatsoever.

However, one empty chair is a pointer of things to come. The Holy See  a tiny nation in its own right, with a billion citizens around the world  has left its chair empty. And that is significant. If global warming still mattered, the Vatican would make sure that its representatives were present throughout this gloomy gathering of world-government wannabes.

This emergency conference, called by the UNs bureaucrats because they were terrified that Cancun this December might fail as spectacularly as Copenhagen did last year, is a much quieter affair than Copenhagen. Not only has the air of triumphalism gone, after the scandals of Climategate, Himalayagate, Amazongate and so forth, but the belief that global warming is a global crisis has largely gone too.

There are a few true-believers left among the national delegates, but more of them than before are open to discussion of the previously-forbidden question  what if the climate extremists have made the whole thing up?

The Chinese Xinhua News Agency, for instance, came up to the table manned by the environmental campaigners of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, which takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of the notion that a tiny increase in the atmospheric concentration of a trace gas is likely to cause a thousand international disasters.

The reporters were genuinely interested to hear that there is another side to the story. Huan Gongdi, the Agencys senior correspondent in Germany, asked me what I thought of the Copenhagen accord (a waste of time), what was happening in Bonn (a desperate attempt to ram through a binding Treaty that can be put in front of the US Senate before the mid-term elections make Senate acceptance of any such treaty unthinkable), and whether or not there was a climate crisis anyway (there isnt).

I explained to Mr. Huan that even if the UN had not exaggerated the warming effect of CO2 many times over there was still nothing we could do about the supposed crisis, because we were emitting so little of the stuff in the first place.

For the record, I did the sum in front of him. The atmospheric concentration of CO2 today is about 388 parts per million by volume. However, we are adding just 2 ppmv a year to the air. So the warming we cause each year, even if one believes the UNs wild exaggerations of CO2s warming effect, is just 4.7 times the natural logarithm of the proportionate increase in CO2 concentration from 388 to 390 ppmv.

Thus, 4.7 ln(390/388) = 0.043 Fahrenheit degrees  less than a twentieth of a Fahrenheit degree of global warming every year. That is all. Putting it another way, it would take almost a quarter of a century with no carbon-emitting activity at all  not a single train, plane, automobile, or fossil-fueled power station  to forestall just 1 Fahrenheit degree of global warming.

That is why no Treaty based on controlling the amount of carbon dioxide the world emits can possibly work. And that is why there is no hurry anyway. The only reason for the UNs sense of urgency  a panic no longer felt by the majority of the delegates here  is that the bureaucrats know the game is up. Opinion polls throughout the free world show that no one now believes a word of the climate extremists nonsense any more. If they cant get a binding treaty this year, they wont get one at all, and they know it.

There are no true-believers in Global Warming/Climate Change among the leadership. Their only belief is in Internatioal Socialism.

Who did The Obammunist make commissar of Energy and Climate Change? None other than Carol Browner, former director of Socialists International. Browner is appointed without scrutingy by congress yet is charged by The Obammunist with enforcing the most powerful political agenda, running EPA behind the scenes, making regulations, appointing apparatchiks.

The leadership are political ideologues. The true believers are what Lenin called "cannon fodder for the revolution", unwitting dupes.

You don't see or hear of Carol Browner anywhere. She is too powerful.

yitbos

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posted on 04/11/2010 1:10:12 AM PDT
by bruinbirdman
("Those who control language control minds.")

“And that is significant. If global warming still mattered, the Vatican would make sure that its representatives were present throughout this gloomy gathering of world-government wannabes”

I believe the papal contingent is much too busy trying to stay out of the limelight after the ongoing kerfluffle of pedophilia. And does anyone really think the pope has much credibility anymore? Just look to the pro-abort “catholics” in the US and the ILLEGALS who are said to be catholic and yet have no qualms about breaking US laws and stealing from us CITIZENS.

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posted on 04/11/2010 2:45:01 AM PDT
by freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))

Yeah, as I remembered there has been a hurricane/tropical storm in every month on the calendar. And so I looked on wiki and it says there have been 9 in December since 1870. So I guess it could happen.

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posted on 04/11/2010 2:06:49 PM PDT
by JLS
(Democrats: People who wont even let you enjoy an unseasonably warm winter day)

I was struck, watching an Obozo speech FRagment the other day (my clicker was so far FRom my right hand that I had to watch a few seconds of it — I hate it when that happens!) by how much he does take after Hitler in his charismatic arrogance and condescending speechifying.

We are in for a rough three more years!

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posted on 04/11/2010 8:10:36 PM PDT
by Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)

However, one empty chair is a pointer of things to come. The Holy See  a tiny nation in its own right, with a billion citizens around the world  has left its chair empty. And that is significant. If global warming still mattered, the Vatican would make sure that its representatives were present throughout this gloomy gathering of world-government wannabes.

My opinion of course, I think there is/was motivation by the Jon Stewart media to rake the tiny nation over the proverbial coals, this past month, because of something like this... although I thought it was to get a 'holy' campaign going over the compassionate need for Amnesty... I did not realize there was a seat for the tiny nation at table of globull warming.

The Holy See has diplomatic status around the world, with ambassadors, etc.

Well apparently they did not see fit to send an ambassador to sit at this table... Now think maybe the Jon Stewart media reminding the world of 'priest' abuse and ensuing cover up is NOT at least in part to pay back this major oversight?

I expect the 45th President to be a Real American! And take orders only from the American people.

That's what many other Americans want for their president, but unfortunately, the globalist elite is still in control, working hard behind the scenes for the installation of a one world government.

The last president who was a true President of the United States and benefited America as a whole was John F. Kennedy.

Unfortunately, when he attempted to take back the government from the criminal globalist elite (such as signing EO 11110, mandating the production of United States Notes through the governmental treasury instead of the Federal Reserve - I should call it Criminal Reserve), they brutally killed him in cold blood through their assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (there may have been additional snipers in case Oswald missed his shots).

That sent a spine-chilling message to Kennedy's successors, and other world leaders: Follow our orders, or DIE.

No other U.S. president since JFK has been assassinated to date.

And if a president like the one you described came into office and turned against the globalist elite, he would meet the same fate as JFK, Abraham Lincoln or William McKinley.

Again, please take note that the position of POTUS is a puppet post, and this puppet position is deemed VERY important to the globalist elite.

This is the reason why:

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posted on 04/12/2010 6:30:32 AM PDT
by myknowledge
(B.H. Obama's just a frontman. A frontman for who? The globalist elite, stupid!)

Do you really think the defense that everybody does it is making a ‘Godly’ defense? Now what is it that is touted regarding the Catholic church and its members? They are the ONLY church that got Peter's keys. And then there is the Kennedy/Pelosi/Stupak wing of the church, and I assure you that they have far more standing out of Rome than me a nonmember... But fortunately for me judgment does NOT come out of Rome but from the Heavenly Father.

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